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LTTE releases homeguards by Ranga Jayasuriya The two homeguards held in LTTE detention for over two months were released last evening. The SLMM monitors who escorted the two homeguards from Sampur in LTTE controlled area handed them over to Acting Defence Secretary Thilak Ranaviraja at the Navy House, Trincomalee last night. The Acting Defence Secretary handed the released homeguards to the Secretary to President W. J. S. Karunaratne who in turn handed them over to the police. Police then entrusted them to their relatives. Minister Maithripala Sirisena was also present at the Navy house yesterday. President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga last night spoke to relesed homeguards over the telephone and inquied about their helth. Early this month, Ministers Mangala Samaraweera and Maithripala Sirisena met relatives of homeguards and participants of Satyagraha and assured them that the Government would do its best to secure the release of the homegurads. LTTE Trincomalee political chief Elilan yesterday met the people performing Satyagraha demanding the release of the two homeguards and informed the relatives of the guards that the duo were to be released yesterday on bail by an LTTE court in Sampur. The LTTE kept on dragging the release of the two homeguards even after the ten LTTE cadres whose release the Tigers demanded were granted bail on Thursday by the Trincomalee Magistrate. The homeguards, Chandana Piyasiri and Sarath Bandara were kidnapped by the Tigers in Thalampattu, Thiriyaya on August 10 along with five civilians who were later released. |
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